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The working hours of immigrants in Germany: Temporary versus permanent

Kahanec, Martin; Shields, Michael P. - In: IZA Journal of Migration 2 (2013), pp. 1-15

Migration is often viewed as an investment decision. Temporary migrants can be expected to invest less in accumulating …

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How skilled immigration may improve economic equality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-13

. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving …

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Migration, risk attitudes, and entrepreneurship: Evidence from a representative immigrant survey

Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-25

Do more risk loving migrants opt for self-employment? We use a novel vignette-adjusted measure of risk preferences to investigate the link between risk aversion and entrepreneurship in migrant communities. Using an original representative household survey of the migrant population in the Greater...

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Remittances, school quality, and household education expenditures in Nepal

Bansak, Cynthia; Chezum, Brian; Giri, Animesh - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-19

A heightened interest in understanding the remitting practices of immigrants and their impact on a variety of economic indicators has emerged as remittances to developing countries have risen substantially over the past decade. If remittances primarily enhance consumption, they may have no...

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Better migrants, better PISA results: Findings from a natural experiment

Cattaneo, Maria A.; Wolter, Stefan C. - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-19

Switzerland changed its migration policy in the 1990s from a "non-qualified only" policy to one of almost free movement …

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From immigrants to (non-)citizens: political economy of naturalisations in Latvia

Ivļevs, Artjoms; King, Roswitha M. - In: IZA Journal of Migration 1 (2012), pp. 1-23

We study the determinants of the willingness to acquire citizenship of Latvia by 'non-citizens' - the former Soviet migrants and their descendants born on the territory of Latvia. The country of Latvia serves as an instructive laboratory for the analysis of naturalisations: due to the centrally...

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Skilled migration and the transfer of institutional norms

Beine, Michel; Sekkat, Khalid - In: IZA Journal of Migration 2 (2013), pp. 1-19

We examine two impacts of international emigration on the evolution of the institutions in the origin countries. The first impact concerns the influence of emigration per se (i.e. people who left the country can voice more or less from abroad). The second impact relates to the transfer of the...

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The analytics of the wage effect of immigration

Borjas, George J. - In: IZA Journal of Migration 2 (2013), pp. 1-25

The theory of factor demand has important implications for the study of the impact of immigration on wages. This paper derives the theoretical implications in the context of a general equilibrium model where the wage impact depends on the elasticity of product demand, the rate at which the...

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Source country characteristics and immigrants' optimal migration duration decision

Kırdar, Murat G. - In: IZA Journal of Migration 2 (2013), pp. 1-21

This paper examines how immigrants' optimal migration duration in the host country responds to the purchasing power … parity (ppp) and relative wages between the host and source countries. A theoretical model of joint migration duration and … saving decisions reveals that the optimal migration duration decreases in ppp unless the elasticity of intertemporal …

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Self-selection patterns among return migrants: Mexico 1990-2010

Campos-Vazquez, Raymundo M.; Lara, Jaime - In: IZA Journal of Migration 1 (2012), pp. 1-18

This paper analyzes the self-selection patterns among Mexican return migrants during the period 1990-2010. To calculate … the selection patterns, we nonparametrically estimate the counterfactual wages that the return migrants would have … experienced had they never migrated by using the wage structure of stayers. We find evidence that the selection patterns in …

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